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Viewpoint: Labour, as ever, bedevilled by a microchasm
In last month's leader, Education & Training took a macro view of the labour market. In this and subsequent leaders more detailed comments will be offered relating to certain…
Talent spotting — how good are we?
Don MarkwellIt has commonly been assumed that most managers are good at finding their successors. Indeed many managers would also claim that they are good not only at finding their own…
Breaking through the sound barrier
P.J. HillsThe Primary Communications Research Centre (PCRC) was established at the University of Leicester on 1 July, 1976 by a grant from the British Library Research and Development…
Action learning — adaptation strategies and implementation
Andre Van BeylenIn the current society, characterised by frequently occurr‐ing rapid and tumultuous changes, unforeseen and impossible to forecast, there is a need for bright, effective and…
Careers:: TRAINING
The three‐star Grosvenor House Hotel in Stratford‐upon‐Avon will be hosts in a unique training exercise for students from South Warwickshire College of Further Education from…
Careers:: TOPICS
Britain needs skilled graduates and diplomates who are conscious that the UK must earn its living and compete successfully with other industrialised countries in the world…
Careers:: COURSES
If Britain could ever truly be described as a nation of shopkeepers, then the ILEA's College for the Distributive Trades might accept it as a backhanded compliment. As the only…
ABEnews
Donald GoldWe are sorry to have to report that Brigadier Nigel Strickland, the Director of Administration, who normally writes this feature, is very unwell at the present time and on sick…
Come the Revolution
Stephen PrattThe familiar phrase the office of the eighties is already becoming hackneyed, even though we have only just entered the new decade. There has been unprecedented attention in the…
Pinpointing
Lyndon JonesWhen managers are asked to improve employee effectiveness, all too often their solution is to seek to enforce a tough line if the workers are in a weak bargaining position…
The case for learning by doing
Director General D.An important aspect of the current phase of national self‐examination is the attention which is being given to a new evaluation of the relationship between education, training and…
A case for the chop?
Bill OBE AllenIndustrial Training Boards — why they should be dismantled is the title of this Report. Clive Elliot is a director of his family publishing company and a former national…
Science in society
This article describes an entirely new teaching project designed to make science teaching not only more assimilable but more relevant to the world about us.
What are academics good for?
Michael HorneA lifelong commitment to an academic career necessarily induces certain priorities in relation to engineering education that may not be fully understood by those without such a…
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